The Queen

Constantin Guys

Artist, French, 1805 - 1892

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Félix Tournachon, called Nadar (1820-1910; Lugt 1929), Paris; Otto Gerstenberg [1848-1935], Berlin; (The Lefèvre Gallery, London); purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1963

  • XIX and XX Century French Painting and Drawings. Lefèvre Gallery, Paris, 1963, no. 34 (repr.).

Bibliography

1909

  • Grappe, Georges. Constantin Guys. Berlin, 1909: facing p. 27.

1930

  • Holme, C. Geoffrey. The Painter of Victorian Life: A Study of Constantin Guys with an introduction and a translation of Baudelaire's Peintre de la Vie Moderne. London, 1930: 114.

Inscriptions

by later hand, center verso in graphite: 140 / S. morrge / 31 x 40

Wikidata ID

Q64540361

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